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Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Spotlight & iPad Mini Giveaway: All I Want For Christmas is You by Jessica Scott

I'm thrilled to be part of the Spotlight & Giveaway for All I Want For Christmas is You by Jessica Scott because I LOVED this novella! I'll be posting my review sometime in November, but in the meantime, scroll down to find out about the book and make sure you enter in the giveaway for an iPad Mini! Awesome, right?!

All
Major Patrick MacLean wanted was Christmas with the woman and child who were
his family in everything but name. But Captain Samantha Egan has come back from
the war a different woman than the one who left - and she doesn't know if she
can love him anymore.

But
neither of them counted on the determination of a little girl they both call
daughter and if Natalie has her wish, her parents may have no idea what's
coming for them. It's going to take Christmas miracle to bring these two
wounded warriors back from the edge of a broken heart.

Excerpt:

It
was not a gentle kiss. It was not tame or timid or questioning.

It
burned her down to the root of Sam's soul. It touched something deep and dark
and hidden.

Something
she'd thought was long since dead and buried and gone.

Patrick’s
tongue slid against hers, stroking to life the very sensations she thought
she'd never feel again.

It
was electric, the feel of his mouth against hers. The scrape of stubble against
her chin, the taste of him. The smell of his skin.

He
nipped her. Pinched her bottom lip between his teeth and sucked it. And she
sighed at the pleasure, at the raw ache his taste and touch aroused in her,
pushing aside the darkness that haunted her.

Sam
felt him. Felt everything. The heat of his skin. The warmth that drew her
closer. That made her want to crawl into his lap and unzip his pants and push
up that damned flannel shirt until they were skin to skin and there was nothing
between them but sweat and heat.

One
hand slid down her side. Tugged at her fleece and...

"Dear
lord how many layers of clothing do you have on under this thing," he
muttered against her lips.

She
smiled. "You weren't wondering why I wasn't cold?"

"Well
you'd be a champ at strip poker right about now," he murmured.

Then
his fingers found her skin and she was no longer thinking.

Biography

Jessica
Scott is a career army officer, mother of two daughters, three cats and three
dogs, wife to a career NCO and wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She
is a terrible cook and even worse housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot
with her assigned weapon and someone liked some of the stuff she wrote.
Somehow, her children are pretty well adjusted and her husband still loves her,
despite burned water and a messy house.

She's
written for the New York Times At War Blog, PBS Point of View Regarding War,
and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of OIF/New Dawn and has served
as a company commander at Fort Hood, Texas.

She's
pursuing a PhD in Sociology in her spare time and most recently, she's
been featured as one of Esquire Magazine's Americans of the Year for 2012.